Communication and Patient safety

Relationship Between Nursing Communication Characteristics and Patient Safety Culture at Educational Hospitals in Sanandaj City

Introduction: The current study investigated the relationship between nurseschr('39') communication features and patient safety culture in educational hospitals in Sanandaj city, Iran. Methods: This correlational study was performed on 278 nurses working in educational hospitals in Sanandaj, Iran. The standard safety culture questionnaire made by Barton J.chr('39')s quality and health care res...

Nurses' role in communication and patient safety.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION is critical during the countless interactions that occur among healthcare workers on a daily basis. Staff must know how to communicate effectively and work collaboratively in teams so that appropriate information is shared in a timely manner. When effective communication is absent, patient care is compromised. Communication breakdowns have long been cited as a root cause...

Improving patient safety by improving medication communication.

Any time that information about a patient's medication is communicated, there is a potential for error that occurs because of misinterpretation of abbreviations, acronyms, and dose designations. In the following discussion, corrective approaches for reducing the use of error-prone terms will be reviewed. Terms on the "Do Not Use" list are identified and the rationale for using "Tall Man" letter...

Disturbing the Doxa of Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

In a recent edition of this journal, Mannion and Braithwaite provide a succinct analysis of the emergence, and ultimately limited impact, of what they term the current ‘Safety I’ movement in healthcare. They describe the arc of this field from denial, through engagement via mechanisms and approaches imported from other industries, to the current situation where, despite ‘best efforts,’ error ra...

Erice Statement 2009: communication, medicines and patient safety